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- Title
Biogeografia de vicariância: histórico e perspectivas da disciplina que lançou um novo olhar sobre a diversidade na Terra.
- Authors
Silva de Miranda, Gustavo; dos Santos Dias, Pedro Henrique
- Abstract
Biogeography is the discipline that explains the distribution of groups of organisms, or taxa, on the surface of the earth. The historical biogeography studies past agents using distributional patterns of species and supra-specific taxa generated by processes that operate on a large scale and takes thousands of years. The rapid changes in the historical biogeography thought were triggered by few individuals with particular ideas. This paper aims to describe the main steps that led to the vicariance biogeography as well as analyzing the theory as it is presented today. Besides, is provided a list of the main works of the three authors that developed and brought contributions to the vicariance biogeography, Donn Rosen, Gareth J. Nelson and Norman Platnick. It is presented a table containing the different methods used in the historical biogeography in the pre-and post-cladism period. This work intends to offer some data that may be used in the teaching and research in biogeography. The idea that life evolves along with the Earth was clearly exposed by Léon Croizat, who presented a method to access these modifications, the panbiogeography. The panbiogeography gained strength when it joined the theory of plate tectonics Alfred Wegener. Shortly after, Nelson, Rosen and Platnick added to the panbiogeographic method the phylogenetic concept developed by Willi Hennig.
- Subjects
BIOGEOGRAPHY; CLADISTIC analysis; LITHOSPHERE; ROSEN, Donn E.; NELSON, Gareth J.; PLATNICK, Norman; CROIZAT, Leon, 1894-1982; HISTORY
- Publication
Philosophy & History of Biology / Filosofia e História da Biologia, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
1983-053X
- Publication type
Article